Marty O'Kane Email & Phone Number

New Rochelle, New York, United States

• Supervise the design, development, and delivery of summative, formative, and interim assessment content used in over 240 school districts and by hundreds of thousands of students annually• Ensure that assessment content conforms to best practices and is correctly aligned to state standards, test specifications, Lexile levels, bias/sensitivity guidelines, and principles of universal design• Coordinate workflow with sales, marketing, copyedit, design, production, audio, Spanish editorial, and external vendors to complete print and digital projects on schedule and according to project guidelines• Maintain assessment content on a digital eAssessment platform that educators use to administer over 9,000,000 assessments each year• Collaborate with digital product owners and SaaS teams to refine digital assessment tools and optimize eAssessment platform functionality • Cultivate positive relationships with and provide assessment program support to educators and school district leaders• Manage a team of seven direct reports; perform annual employee reviews; and coordinate project staffing with publisher, director of publishing operations, and editorial leadership

New York, Ny; New Rochelle, Ny

• Manage a team of editors in the development of assessment and instructional content, both in digital and print formats, for multiple literacy programs that are used by over 240 school districts nationwide and over 100,000 students annually• Ensure that all assessment and instructional content conforms to best practices and is correctly aligned to state standards and specifications • Coordinate workflow with copyedit, design, digital production, print production, audio, and Spanish editorial teams to complete projects on schedule and according to project guidelines• Supervise the maintenance and revision of student- and teacher-facing content on a proprietary digital assessment platform, which educators use to administer over 6,000,000 assessments each year

New Rochelle, Ny

New Rochelle, Ny

Westport, Ct

• Supervised the creation of custom grade 4-8 history/social studies practice assessments for the Virginia Department of Education. • Developed and edited assessment content, ensuring alignment with Virginia DOE History/Social Studies Standards of Learning and assessment development guidelines. • Managed writing staff and coordinated workflow with design, copyedit, and fact checking teams, ensuring that projects were completed on deadline and to client specifications.• Supervised the development of history/social studies content for a series of workbooks designed to prepare students for GED, TASC, and HiSet high school equivalency tests.

Burlington, Ma

• Designed a U.S. History course for the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board’s Bachelor of Applied Sciences in Organizational Leadership Program. Developed course structure, syllabus, and assignments based on faculty-approved reading materials and Texas higher education learning objectives and course competencies.• Redesigned content from the college text Mathematics for Elementary Teachers: A Contemporary Approach (Musser, Gary L. et al. Hoboken, NJ; Wiley, 2014) for a student-facing online module. Reviewed existing elementary math, geometry, and algebra question content for accuracy and computational correctness, and optimized hard-copy content for an online environment. Authored original student-facing question rationales and content-focused text support material.

Los Angeles, Ca

• Supervised the creation of hundreds of elementary, middle, and high school question items aligned to Common Core Language Arts standards.• Managed writing staff, mentored new writers through the item creation process, and ensured that assigned work was completed on deadline.• Reviewed and edited contractor work to verify that it was correctly aligned to targeted Common Core standards and Bloom’s taxonomies, and that it conformed to client’s content standards and item development guidelines.

Jersey City, Nj

• Supervised the authoring, editing, and production of a History/Social Science item bank of over 1,400 question items for the California public school system, overseeing all facets of item development: recruiting and managing writing staff, approving item content and alignment, and coordinating on-deadline workflow with copyedit, design, and online production teams.• Supervised the re-alignment of over 3,000 existing ELA items to Common Core and state language arts standards.• Assisted senior math editor with various elementary, middle, and high school projects; oversaw completion of custom math assessments for numerous clients.

New Jersey

• Taught hundreds of high school, college and post-graduate students in both one-on-one and full classroom settings to improve their performance on the SAT, SAT Subject Tests (U.S. History, Literature), LSAT, GRE, and GMAT. Tutored students in various academic subjects.• Named NJ Teacher of the Year in 2004 in recognition of the quality and scope of teaching efforts.

New York, Ny

• Composed, arranged, and edited K-12 assessment tests and question items in subjects including math (K-8, geometry, algebra I & II, pre-calculus), ELA, and history/social studies (U.S. history, world history, civics).• Authored and edited test material and instructional content for some of the nation’s largest and most influential school systems, including New York City, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Denver, Baltimore, Florida, and Texas.

Master Of Education - Med, Educational Assessment, Testing, And Measurement, A

Front End Web Design

Learned HTML, CSS, Javascript, and JQuery coding; used these skills to design a new web site: martyok.github.io/index

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), English Major; History/Philosophy Minor, Summa Cum Laude

Activities and Societies: Member, Phi Beta Kappa Member, Rutgers College General Honors Program Henry Rutgers Scholar Dean's List.

Education record

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